System Resources

When we make major changes to a program in an effort to meet the same objectives, the total cost of meeting those objectives is likely to increase. When we make minor changes to a program to increase its efficiency, the overall costs could be reduced. Major changes are often the same as starting over and usually require increases in life-cycle costs. Minor changes are often simply ways to make the system work better, so minor changes usually pay for themselves. We make resource decisions every time we pay for something. Indeed, the proper application of resources is not a mystery to any of us.

The problem with special interest groups is that they have narrow agendas that require a lot of resources. Also, a group that has a narrow agenda is more likely to be polarized and, thus, to have off-the-level items that they want to impose on those who are on-the-level. Even when they are promoting on-the-level, useful objectives, special interest group rhetoric can be extremely slanted as they try to promote their positions. Whether on- or off-the-level, their rhetoric is intended to influence others so that they will be given the resources needed to support their narrow agenda.

Without Technidigm-2000, little gets done without being promoted by a special interest group. With Technidigm-2000 it is possible to place resources where they are needed and to use them efficiently to achieve a broader set of objectives.